一符
One seal
1 roll · 20 strips
$89.00
$89.00 per roll
- One roll, 20 pre-cut strips
- Five ritual applications
- Enough for one goal race
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Shen Xing Fu · The Divine Travel Talisman
Tie the talisman. Take the mountain.
Taoist priests painted the shen xing fu — the speed talisman — and bound it to the legs of travellers who had far to go. We print that same brush on a marigold woven strip you tie on before a race.
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$89.00
Free worldwide shipping
- Hand-brushed fu
- 20 strips a roll
- Free worldwide shipping
20 pre-cut strips
One roll, one race. Peel and place — no scissors.
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One roll, or the full eight hundred li
Dai Zong tied two paper horses to travel five hundred li in a day, and four to travel eight hundred. The ladder below is the same arithmetic.
五百里
Five hundred li
3 rolls · 60 strips
$168.00$267.00
$56.00 per roll
- Three rolls, 60 pre-cut strips
- Fifteen ritual applications
- A whole season, or one for a friend
- The two paper horses Dai Zong tied
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八百里
Eight hundred li
6 rolls · 120 strips
$288.00$534.00
$48.00 per roll
- Six rolls, 120 pre-cut strips
- Thirty ritual applications
- Best price per roll
- The four paper horses of the full legend
Best value · free worldwide shipping
Every order ships free worldwide from China. Asia-Pacific 7–10 days, Europe and North America 7–15 days, everywhere else 7–30 days.
One roll, counted out
What you are actually buying
No subscription, no refill schedule, no app. A roll of marigold woven tape with the talisman printed the length of it, cut into twenty strips, and a set of instructions that reads more like a rite than a manual.
20
Pre-cut strips in a roll
5
Rituals — four strips each
5m
Of woven rayon per roll
5×25
Centimetres per strip
Tied once, for one effort — then retired. A talisman is not something you re-use.
Single use by design
| Material | Rayon (viscose) face, hot-melt adhesive back. Latex free, no acrylic solvent. |
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| Roll length | 5 m, pre-cut into 20 strips of 5 × 25 cm |
| Stretch | Roughly 140% along the strip, none across it |
| Wear | Single use. Sweat and shower resistant for the length of one effort. |
| Shen xing fu talisman script, repeated the full length of the roll | |
| Shipping | Free worldwide. Asia-Pacific 7–10 days, Europe and North America 7–15 days, elsewhere 7–30 days. |
What this actually is
SHENXING Speed Talisman Tape is elastic kinesiology tape printed with the Chinese shen xing fu, the Taoist speed talisman. Each roll holds 20 pre-cut strips of 5 by 25 cm rayon with a hot-melt adhesive back, enough for five ritual applications. You tie it the way a runner ties a talisman: anchor, stretch, rub warm, go. It is worn for one effort and then retired.
It supports and marks. It does not promise you speed. The promise belongs to the legend, and the legend is the point.
The rite · 四张一次
How the talisman is tied
Four strips make one application: two down the calf, one across the ankle, one over the knee, or wherever the road hurts. Five applications to a roll. Do it slowly. Half the point is doing it slowly.
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Clean and dry
Skin must be dry and free of oil or lotion. Shave heavy hair if you want the strip to hold the full effort.
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Round the corners
Round each cut corner with scissors. Square corners are what catch on a sock and peel.
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03
Anchor with no stretch
Lay the first 3 cm flat with zero tension. The anchor is what holds; stretching it is the most common mistake.
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Stretch the middle
Hold the limb in its stretched position and lay the body of the strip at roughly half stretch. The last 3 cm go down flat again.
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Rub it warm
Rub along the strip with your palm until it warms. The adhesive is heat activated and will not hold until you do.
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Give it twenty minutes
Apply at least twenty minutes before you start, so the bond is set before the sweat is.
Do not apply over broken, irritated or infected skin. Remove it if the skin reacts. This is a tape and a talisman, not a medical device, and nothing here treats, prevents or diagnoses an injury.
September 2026 · Courmayeur, Italy
The week yellow tape went round the world
On 16 September 2026 a Chinese runner crossed the line at the Tor des Géants, the 330 km circuit of the Aosta Valley, in 65 hours 55 minutes — the first Asian athlete to win it. The photographs went everywhere, and in every one of them there were strips of yellow talisman tape running down his legs.
Jiaju Zhao did not explain the tape, and nobody asked him to. Anyone who grew up in China recognised it immediately: the marigold paper and the cinnabar brush of a fu, the drawn talisman a Taoist priest gives you before a long road. The rest of the internet spent a week asking what it was.
This is what it was. Not the same roll, not the same runner, not a sponsorship — just the same thousand-year-old drawing, printed on tape you can tie yourself.
Avernook is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any athlete, race or organiser named or pictured here, and no athlete pictured has any connection to this product. Photographs are used as news reference for a widely reported public sporting event. SHENXING tape is an elastic rayon support tape with a hot-melt adhesive and a piece of Taoist folk art. It is not a medical device and makes no claim to improve performance, prevent injury or treat any condition.
Field reports
130 people tied it on. This is what came back.
Photographs and notes sent in by customers — road, trail, gym, stairwell. Printed as received.
4.8
Sent in by customers
40 customer photos · scroll for more
Sep 14, 2026
Fresh legs at mile 9
Wore this for a 10-mile trail run. Felt lighter the whole way and my legs were fresh at mile 9, which has literally never happened. I do not know what those red symbols say but they say it loudly.
Hannah P.Verified buyer
Sep 5, 2026
As pictured, corners lift
Shipped fast, packaged nicely, and it looks exactly like the photos. Took one star off because the corners started to lift a little after two weeks of heavy sweating. Still lives on my arm and the husband wants one.
Kelly A.Verified buyer
Sep 4, 2026
No altitude headache on the 14er
I wore it for a 14er hike and had no altitude headache at all, which never happens. My hiking group now calls me the talisman girl.
Sophie B.Verified buyer
Sep 1, 2026
Lovely story behind it
The characters are beautifully printed and crisp. I asked the seller what they mean and got a lovely reply about an old traveler's charm for swift and safe journeys. Instant fan.
Hassan A.Verified buyer
Aug 21, 2026
Hand painted look
The red script is so intricate up close. It looks like it was hand-painted. I keep catching people staring at my arm at the gym and I am fine with it.
Cora N.Verified buyer
Aug 17, 2026
Worth the wait
Everything finished early during finals week and my roommate and I now fight over it. One star off because shipping took nine days, but it was worth the wait in the end.
Selena V.Verified buyer
Jul 19, 2026
It is silly and it works
My brother called it a scam. He now owns two. This review is for anyone who thinks it is silly. It is silly, and it works, and those are not mutually exclusive.
Logan B.Verified buyer
Sep 12, 2026
Gets noticed at the gym
The yellow is bright and the red script looks genuinely cool in person. Three people at the gym asked where I got it before I even finished my warmup.
Priya S.Verified buyer
Sep 6, 2026
50K, zero bonk
Long review because this deserves it. I run ultras and have tried every taper trick, every shoe, every gel. Nothing changed my late-race legs until this. Wore it at a 50K last month and the last 10K felt like the first 10K. Walked away with a course PR and zero bonk. Already ordered two more for my pacers.
Josh P.Verified buyer
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Reviews and photographs are submitted by customers and are their own words and images; ratings are shown exactly as received. SHENXING tape is an elastic rayon support tape with a hot-melt adhesive and a piece of Taoist folk art. It is not a medical device and makes no claim to improve performance, prevent injury or treat any condition.
Where the mark comes from
The man who tied paper to his legs
拴两个甲马，日行五百里；拴四个甲马，日行八百里。 Water Margin, on Dai Zong the Divine Traveller
Dai Zong is the messenger of the Water Margin outlaws, remembered for a single trick. He ties jia ma — small talisman papers, the paper horses — to his calves, recites the charm, and covers ground no walking man should cover. Two papers carry him five hundred li. Four carry him eight hundred.
The paper horse is real folk practice. For centuries Chinese travellers, porters and pilgrims carried block-printed talismans for the road, and Taoist priests drew the shen xing fu, the speed talisman, in cinnabar by hand. Our tape carries that same brushwork, at the same place on the same legs.
五百里 Two papers. Five hundred li in a day — the bundle of three rolls carries the same name.
八百里 Four papers. Eight hundred li in a day — the bundle of six.
甲马 Jia ma, the paper horse. The talisman you tie on before you set out.
神行符 Shen xing fu, the divine-travel talisman. The mark printed down every strip.
Answers
What people ask before they tie one on
Plain answers. If yours is not here, write to us and we will add it.
Does it actually make me faster?
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. This is elastic support tape with a talisman printed on it. It holds a muscle the way any kinesiology tape holds a muscle, and it carries a thousand-year-old drawing that means go far. What it does to your race is what any ritual does to any effort: it settles you before the start. The speed is still yours.
What is it made of?
Woven rayon with a hot-melt acrylic adhesive backing, printed with the fu in cinnabar on marigold. Latex free. Each roll is 5 m long and comes pre-cut into 20 strips of 5 by 25 cm.
How long do I wear it?
One effort. Tie it before the race or the long run, and retire it afterwards. It is not built to be worn for days, and the ritual only really works if you tie it fresh each time.
How do I make it stick?
Dry, oil-free skin. Anchor the first 3 cm with zero stretch, lay the middle at about half stretch with the limb stretched out, finish the last 3 cm flat. Then rub the whole strip with your palm until it warms — the adhesive is heat activated and will not hold until you do. Apply at least twenty minutes before you start.
Where does it ship from, and what does shipping cost?
Shipping is free worldwide, on every order. Parcels leave China within 24 hours. Asia-Pacific arrives in 7–10 days, Europe and North America in 7–15 days, everywhere else in 7–30 days.
Can I return it?
Yes. If a roll arrives damaged or the print is wrong, tell us within 30 days of delivery and we will replace it or refund you. Rolls that have been opened and used cannot be resold, so we handle those case by case — write to us and we will sort it out.
敕令 · By command
The road is long. Tie something on.
日行八百里
Twenty strips to a roll — five full applications, five long days. Brush-written by a Daoist priest for anyone with far to go, and shipped free anywhere in the world.
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